I have weaned myself away from the nightly ritual of watching the “news” on TV. It was getting increasingly difficult to clear my mind of the images and bombastic rhetoric aimed at dehumanizing entire peoples, countries and races, just before retiring for the night. Now, while other thoughts still preoccupy me, I find it is …
Fruit laden trees
In his extensive collection Masnavi-i Ma’navi, the Sufi Master Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi alludes to the trees of the field and states, “Every tree that yields no fruit such as the pine and the cypress grows tall and straight, lifting up its head on high and sending all its branches upwards, whereas all the fruit …
Marketing (oneself)
The (late) mystic, Osho had an interesting observation about humans’ exaggerated display of humility. He related an incident of a politician attending a rally where one speaker after another came up to the podium and obsequiously extolled the virtues of the chief guest. Then, the illustrious man himself rose to speak and spent a long …
Vengeance .. inteqaam
The world is turning into a scary place, or so it would seem. One moiety watches the other with misgivings, distrust or worse, hatred. We are the righteous, but “they” are the ones that cause trouble. Religious divide, political contrariness, economic “haves” versus the “have-nots”, we are never short on labels to highlight differences and …
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